Scotland’s spring of discontent
Doubts are growing over Humza Yousaf’s leadership of the SNP. Will he be ousted before the next Holyrood election…
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The Age of Danger
Letter of the week: Schools out
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Labour’s former rugby player Khalid Mahmood high-tackles a heckler
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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How Mike Johnson defied the Trumpists in Congress over Ukraine
The US Senate has approved a bill for $95bn worth of foreign aid – thanks to the Republican speaker…
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Iran’s new doctrine has changed everything
In the days following Tehran’s missile and drone attack on Israel, flights out of Tel Aviv were booked solid.
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Robin Simcox: “Extremism is not always a black-and-white issue”
The head of the Commission for Countering Extremism on why our categories for the threats we face are “not…
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Columbia’s campus uprising
Pro-Palestine protests are sweeping America’s elite universities.
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Anti-Semitism is rife in Britain – but be wary of simple media narratives
The row over a London police officer calling a man “openly Jewish” at a pro-Palestinian march reveals the perils…
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The biggest threat to freedom in the West is liberalism itself
Progressives everywhere are deploying the law to attack free speech. It is a bid for unchecked power that is…
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Britain’s worklessness crisis is getting worse
Rishi Sunak is attempting to tackle “sick-note culture” – but the Tories are exacerbating the problem.
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Britain is divided by educational status
The crisis at Goldsmiths is symbolic of what is going wrong in our universities.
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Baby Reindeer understands the hidden reality of abuse
This darkly honest series is the best depiction I’ve seen of abusive relationships and their murky, unspoken dynamics.
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The age of danger
Order is breaking down as the great powers take sides in multiple wars.
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Goya’s lessons for a world at war
Why the great Spanish painter’s work still resonates so urgently.
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Salman Rushdie’s warning bell
His memoir Knife is a defence of free speech for a new age of intolerance. We should listen.
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Theresa May’s legacy of chaos
Tim Shipman shows how May’s charisma-free caution over Brexit made the rise of Boris Johnson inevitable.
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The rise of the worried well
Caroline Crampton’s history of hypochondria shows how the internet has exacerbated health anxiety.
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From Marilynne Robinson to Ross King: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson and England: Seven Myths that Changed a Country by Tom Baldwin and Marc…
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What’s the point of Liz Truss?
In Ten Years to Save the West, Truss has lessons for the Conservative Party. They’re just not the ones…
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The tortured Taylor Swift
On The Tortured Poets Department, Swift portrays herself as a woman tormented by her exes, her haters, and even,…
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Caspar David Friedrich and the mystery of eternity
The great painter, born 250 years ago, made it his lifelong task to depict the numinous in nature.
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Luca Guadagnino’s wryly horny tennis film Challengers
In this playful depiction of a toxic ménage-à-trois between players, the sport is a stand-in for sex.
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ITV’s preposterous Red Eye is a bargain-basement Snakes on a Plane
This jumbo-jet thriller has a just-add-boiling-water feel, as though made from the dried remains of other dramas.
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Teenage boys talk masculinity
In BBC Radio 4’s About the Boys, 16-year-olds discuss what it means to “become a man”.
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The wild, herby comforts of nettle soup
The lip-tingling foraged food is an ancient reminder of our right to live off the land.
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Neurodiversity is usually just part of being human
With referrals for ADHD, autistic spectrum disorder and other conditions swamping the NHS, we need to rethink medicine’s role…
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The superhuman I’d pictured turns out to be a super human indeed
I finally meet the boxer I’ve heard so much about. Unexpectedly, we hit it off.
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Spring’s lighter evenings have brought me back to life
It’s a cruel and twisted joke that this country is kept dark all winter because of our obsession with…
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Even now, I still fantasise about being a footballer
I’d have little chance at Man City, but Spurs? No problem. I am sure my tortoise could get a…
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This England: Split decision
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Jah Wobble Q&A: “Evil spirits shattered my parking sensors”
The legendary post-punk bassist and singer on teleportation, Tube trains, and living with the paranormal.
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